Don’t like Gift Registries?

TGFI argues that gift registries rob the joy of giving,

But I think that gift giving still shouldn’t be such a clinical affair. What happened to the fun of searching through stores, wondering if it would suit your friend, picking it up, packing it in fancy paper, etc? What about the surprise factor in opening up a gift not knowing what it is going to be? Shouldn’t some part of the joy of gifting belong to the gift-giver? I certainly didn’t get any joy out of this process, where my friend literally demanded, in a very impersonal fashion to me and 50 others what she’d like as gifts, and it was left between us to squabble over who gets to the least expensive gift first!

I suspect people would have a lot to say on this one…